•Canada set a third consecutive full-year commercial real estate investment record in 2018 with 7,145 transactions totalling $49.3 billion. This represented a year-over-year increase of 14.3% over the previous record of $43.1 billion in 2017.

•The two most active asset classes by total volume in 2018 were the industrial and office sectors which saw $12.7 billion and $10.8 billion of activity.

•The majority of investment activity in 2018 was centered in Toronto where acquisitions totalled $17.9 billion. This was the largest full-year investment total ever experienced by a Canadian city.

•The two largest transactions in Q4 2018 were the sale of Queen’s Quay Terminal in Toronto to Northam and iA Financial Group for $261.0 million and the sale Sun Life Plaza in Calgary to Aspen Properties for $225.0 million.

•Private Canadian Investors, REIT/REOCs and Foreign Investors were the primary purchasers in 2018.

The 2018 edition of CBRE’s Canadian Real Estate Lenders’ Report provides insight into the real estate investment cycle and what borrowers can expect as they look to access financing and pursue commercial real estate investment opportunities in 2019.

Scoring Canadian Tech Talent is a comprehensive analysis of labour market conditions, cost and quality for highly-skilled tech workers. 20 Canadian cities were ranked according to their competitive advantages and appeal to tech-talent workers and tech employers. This study also provides insight into the quality of tech talent and how their growth patterns are impacting cities and real estate markets across Canada.

CBRE’s Scoring Tech Talent is a comprehensive analysis of labor market conditions, cost and quality for highly skilled tech workers in the U.S. and Canada. We ranked the 50 largest markets according to their competitive advantages and appeal to tech employers and tech talent. Our analysis provides insight into the quality of tech talent, demographics and how tech talent growth patterns are impacting cities and real estate markets.

The North America Fit-Out Cost Guide provides market-leading insights and data straight to the hands of your clients on some of their most pressing questions. The guide presents data collected from corporate office tenant improvement projects of all sizes, complexities, and locations in addition to providing key insights on quickly evolving market trends, such as workplace strategy and project delivery methods. In addition to the 2017 data, this year’s publication provides indicative pricing, a forward-looking framework used as a basic guideline for estimating high-level costs for corporate office tenant improvement projects of varying specification levels across multiple markets.

This year, we studied over $2 billion (USD) in capital spend spanning 21 sectors throughout North America for corporate office tenant improvement projects – over 20,000 data points were collected and analyzed.